Electric Comet wrote:
saw an interesting store needed no wood for the structure nor steel beams
the structure was made from ship steel plates

i did not know that ship hulls are made by bending the giant steel plates
into very specific curved shapes using heat and cool simultaneously

they took the same technique and built a store
it had 18-25 foot high arching roof line and inside it was all open
maybe 30-40 feet wide
sort a quonset meets a-frame look

they purposefully let a coat of rust build up on the surface and
they predict that the structure is good for 100 years

an architect built his house this way too

they use copious amounts of water over one part of the steel and then
heat the other with torches

these are massive steel plates

they do use wood for the interior so some wood working required

i like the idea of fire and forget buildings
no roofing repairs and no painting
not sure about tornadoes or hurricanes but it won't burn down


archy lives

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GW Ross